What if you get a terminal disease that cannot be cured, and diagnosed by doctors that you have only few months? ... Many incurable patients have been tortured and suffering from excruciating pain and many of them want to end their tough lives. ... Through the pain and diseases, they have lost too many things. ... Also in Gill's article, he states that "It is not intrinsically wrong for someone with a terminal disease to kill herself. Also, he says it is not intrinsically wrong for physicians to assist someone with a terminal disease who has reasonable grounds for wanting to kill her...

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On the other hand, to allow someone to die from a disease we cannot cure (and that we did not cause) is to permit the disease to act as the cause of death (Should Euthanasia). ... On the other hand, to allow someone to die from a disease we cannot cure (and that we did not cause) is to permit the disease to act as the cause of death." ... The definition of terminal is "(of a disease) predicted to lead to death, especially slowly; incurable." (Oxford Dictionary) An incurable and slow spreading, but deadly, illness leads to a prolonged and painful death. The incurability of a disease s...

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Euthanasia became an important topic among many doctors and many people who were suffering from diseases like cancer, AIDS, etc. ... Jane was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. ... Alzheimer disease is incurable. ... On the other hand, a symptom such as depression that may be caused by a disease is not a reason for euthanasia. ... When a patient suffers from a disease, the patient may become to ill to rationalize. ...

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Everyone would love to prolong life as long as possible and hope for a cure, patients experiencing serious loss of autonomy from cancer or advanced stages of ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease) or Alzheimer's disease, are the ones most likely to apply for physician-assisted suicide to alleviate their pain and suffering and die with dignity. Some states argue that Physicians will be violating their "Hippocratic oath" that they should do no harm, actually by refusing patients the means to end their intolerable and incurable pain and suffering physicians are causing harm to them, they are not ca...

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The ancient philosopher Plato wrote in his book, The Laws, that suicide is only acceptable for people that fit four categories: people who take their lives by legal order, people who are incurably ill, people who are disabled, and people who have disgraced themselves "beyond any hope of self-forgiveness" (5). ... A hospice is used to treat symptoms of a disease, pain, fatigue, disorientation, and depression (21). ... The World Health Organization defines palliative care as: "the active, total care of patients whose disease is not responsive to curative treatments. ... A disease that may ki...

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A lot of suicides are grouped in the rational category because they are committed so the person can be saved from the pain they may be experiencing from a terminal disease. ... According to Leslie Pickering Francis, "It occurred in Michigan, in 1920, Frank Robert's wife was incurably ill and bedridden with Multiple Sclerosis. ...

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Being a young person in today's world is no easy task. Young people, as well as adults, have to deal with increasingly complex decisions and pressures every day. Unfortunately, many teenagers feel that they are not able to handle their problems, and that there is no one who either cares enough or ...

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